Code Geass Reruns

[gods-debris.livejournal.com]

The past 4 days I rewatched the entire Code Geass series (1st and 2nd) because my boyfriend had never seen it and Dan (one of his friends who has seen it) and I were making a lot of Code Geass references; and well... eventually my boyfriend's curiosity got the best of him and he decided he wanted to watch it.

But that's when I got an idea. I'm also a memeber of the Slayers anime community and a while back they had initiated a rerun schedule where they would watch an episode once every other day or once a week (I can't remember) and at the end of the day the person who set it up would post some screenshots from the episode and talk about some of their thoughts... what they forgot about, what they really liked, etc. Other members who decided to take part could post comments about what they liked as well.

So I was going to propose, as a community, we could rewatch the series. Perhaps one episode a week would be fine? It means it will take about a year to complete since there are 52 weeks in a year. In the first series there is a total of 25 episodes since 25 and 26 were combined into a 46 minute episode and in the second series there is exactly 25 episodes... meaning 50 total.

The rules are simple: if you choose to participate you do not move ahead of the schedule and watch the following episode. You must wait until the next week.

Lemme know if anyone is interested! Sorry about this sounding a bit wordy and rushed. I'm in a hurry but I wanted to get this out there because it was bugging me lol.

Comments

Other people have already answered some of this, but anyway...

[kusaja.livejournal.com]

While it's true that the scenario was re-written (and there are, most certainly, sloppy rewrites in R2 because of this), we don't know to what extent nor most of the actual details the original outline would have involved. We barely have any idea about the initial plans for the sequel, aside from some scraps people have dug up.

Having said that, even after reading your arguments here and below I definitely don't see Zero's re-appearance in early R2 as an irreconcilable contradiction myself.

Regardless of the above...I could even see your point about his characterization being "set back" in other ways, in all honesty, but not in one as basic as his having to continue to assume the Zero persona.

Zero might be for Nunnally's sake but, like others have replied, finding her isn't exactly easy for a student (or former student, if you prefer to contemplate the possibility that Ashford was going to be written out permanently) or even an exiled prince. Let's not forget that at the end of the first season Lelouch's immediate goal was to find Nunnally and, while he abandoned the Black Knights in a rush, he didn't take off his mask by choice.

In early R2, Lelouch was between a rock and a hard place: do nothing, which isn't going to make Nunnally re-appear (as far as he could tell) or become Zero and try to do something, including the eventual possibility of rescuing her himself. If doing so put Nunnally in danger, at the very least he would be informed about that fact (by Charles, Suzaku, V.V. or someone else) instead of not knowing anything at all. Which is close enough to what actually happened in the end.